Darren

Given how much I loved Ready Player One, I had extremely high hopes coming into this read. I appreciate that E.C. was trying to stick to a similar theme, but the entire plot seemed so over the top, and far fetched, that I just never could get into it. I'd probably give it a 2.5 if Goodreads would let me.

This series continues to captivate me. While keeping track of the multiple generations of Bob can be challenging, I always find myself disappointed when I reach the end of a book and realize there are no more installments to read.

I thoroughly enjoyed the latest book. My only criticism is that the ending felt abrupt and lacked a clear resolution in terms of its content and storyline.

Great story, with some great twists that I totally missed coming my way.

Narrators performance was top-notch.

I enjoyed listening to the audio version of this book. The concept was interesting, as most of Stephen King's works are, but felt that there were two main issues I couldn't overlook (SLIGHT SPOILER):

1) Stephen King's political beliefs bleeding on to the pages of his work. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but one of my pet peeves is when an author tries to push his opinions and beliefs on to unsuspecting audiences. If it's part of the story, a core part, then fine. However, this was not, and was a shallow attempt at taking digs at a specific individual/party.

2) Needless loss of life at the end. I get that they were kids, but the situation was such that I feel certain lives did NOT need to be lost, regardless of the mental maturity of the individuals with the capability of stopping the loss of life.

You could argue that those two issues shouldn't color my opinion of the whole book, but it's my review, so deal with it :)

First, if you're going to enjoy the audio version if this book, I thought the narrator did a great job. Often times a narrator can ruin a read for me, thankfully this was not the case this time.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and given that, have already began reading #2 in this series. While not my favorite book ever, I rather enjoyed the author's perspective of time travel, and the various rules that were laid on top of the concept. Specifically, that time “acts” on its own in many ways I thought was a rather unique interpretation of time travel theory.